Research Trajectory

Presentation for UCD School of Politics and International Relations

Zach Dickson

London School of Economics

Research Pipeline

Three key themes

  • Climate Change Politics
    • What causes support for climate policy?
    • How do we get voters to accept costly climate policies?
  • Right-wing Populism
    • What causes support for the radical right?
      • Spatial and distributional effects
  • Political Communication
    • The effects of social media on political support
    • The impact of political communication on public opinion/behaviour

Climate Change Politics

  1. Energy Prices and Policy Support (funded by BA)
  2. Benchmarking Support for the EU Green Deal (funded by Volkswagen)
  3. Civic education (funded by Volkswagen)
  4. UK Renewable Energy Expansion and Climate Backlash

Right-wing Populism

  1. Public Service Decline and Support for the Populist Right (funded by ERC)
  2. Normalising the Radical Right? The 2024 UK Race Riots
  3. Inequality and Support for Right-wing Populism in Britain

Political Communication

  1. Digital Populism: Economic Anxiety vs. Cultural Threats in Right-Wing Reddit Discourse
  2. The Shifting Conservatism Identity Under Trump on Reddit

Connecting Research to Teaching

  1. The Politics of Climate Change
  2. Public Opinion and Political Behaviour
  3. American/US Politics
  4. Comparative Politics
  5. Computational Social Science
  6. Research Design & Causal Inference

Thank you!